Endeavour having minor problem… in space!
blog, space August 11th, 2007
Once again, the space shuttle Endeavour lifted off to space on Wednesday, August 8, 2007 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Their mission is to the International Space Station
One of the crew on board is a former teacher who first trained with crew of the ill-fated Challenger in 1986.
Endeavour will dock for seven days with the ISS. When it does a rendezvous pitch maneuver on August 10, while it approaches the ISS, its belly shows some scary image on it.
NASA reported there is ice damage on Endeavour’s belly causing a gouge on its heat shield… oooo man… not again… According to NASA, a laser inspection has found a gouge estimated to be 3 1/2 inches long and just over 2 inches wide.
If you ever watched sci-fi movie before… the two photos are just like junk space-ship floating on space un-man…
Lets hope everything will be OK… and hope Endeavour will land on earth safely.
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August 18th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Have you seen the pic of the damage they took? And I just found about the FCC thing (if i got that acronym right) – it dissipates heat so well that you can hold it in your hand just after taking it out of a 2000F oven (or sth like that). amazing stuff.
August 18th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
yea… I’ve seen it in one of the documentary… i think more than 10 years ago when I was still in secondary school… ( 🙂 yea yea… I was a science freak 🙂 ) I like watching documentary lah…
They actually baked the stuff, looks like and the size of clay bricks and white in color, one side will be burning red while a thin layer of the other side is still white… guess how they hold it?… they use bare hand… it’s burning 2000 degree on one side… CRAZY invention!!!
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